prevent <td> from stretchinggggggggggg despite setting fixed width

On 2006-12-09, User <user@email> wrote:

hi.

i have a table and it is fixed to width of 200.

inside a table, there is a dynamically generated content from db.. but as
the retrieved content is very long,

my table will be stretcheddddddddddddddddd to fit in this content.

How do i prevent my table or cells from being stretched by dynamic contents?

Put a div inside the <td> and set width: 200px on the div. The content
from the db goes inside the div. You can control what happens to the
overflow by setting the overflow property on the div.

Another possibility is to experiment with table-layout: fixed.

On 2006-12-09, User <user@email> wrote:

Thanks for replying..

I have set
style="table-layout:fixed; "

You shouldn't need that as well as the widthed <div> inside the <td>.

but under the cell:

td ><div style="width:250px;
overflow:visible"><%=rs("title")%></div></td

The contents of the cell overflows to other areas. i want it to be able to
be trapped in the div cell...if the contents hits the edge of the cell, it
will automatically be bring down to the next line...as if there is a line
break

There's no way to force line-breaks except at proper line-breaking
points in CSS 2.1 or in most browsers, although IE has a proprietary
property for it (something like word-wrap: break-word).

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hi.

i have a table and it is fixed to width of 200.

inside a table, there is a dynamically generated content from db.. but as
the retrieved content is very long,

my table will be stretcheddddddddddddddddd to fit in this content.

How do i prevent my table or cells from being stretched by dynamic contents?

pls advise.

thanks



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Thanks for replying..

I have set
style="table-layout:fixed; "

but under the cell:

<td ><div style="width:250px;
overflow:visible"><%=rs("title")%></div></td>

The contents of the cell overflows to other areas. i want it to be able to
be trapped in the div cell...if the contents hits the edge of the cell, it
will automatically be bring down to the next line...as if there is a line
break

"Ben C" <spamspam (AT) spam (DOT) eggs> wrote

On 2006-12-09, User <user@email> wrote:
hi.

i have a table and it is fixed to width of 200.

inside a table, there is a dynamically generated content from db.. but as
the retrieved content is very long,

my table will be stretcheddddddddddddddddd to fit in this content.

How do i prevent my table or cells from being stretched by dynamic
contents?

Put a div inside the <td> and set width: 200px on the div. The content
from the db goes inside the div. You can control what happens to the
overflow by setting the overflow property on the div.

Another possibility is to experiment with table-layout: fixed.

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ic.

hmm there has to be a way to totally prevent a td from being stretched...

i believe many ppl has encounter the same problem before

"Ben C" <spamspam (AT) spam (DOT) eggs> wrote

On 2006-12-09, User <user@email> wrote:
Thanks for replying..

I have set
style="table-layout:fixed; "

You shouldn't need that as well as the widthed <div> inside the <td>.

but under the cell:

td ><div style="width:250px;
overflow:visible"><%=rs("title")%></div></td

The contents of the cell overflows to other areas. i want it to be able
to
be trapped in the div cell...if the contents hits the edge of the cell,
it
will automatically be bring down to the next line...as if there is a line
break

There's no way to force line-breaks except at proper line-breaking
points in CSS 2.1 or in most browsers, although IE has a proprietary
property for it (something like word-wrap: break-word).

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